Source: newsthemegh.com
The Numo Nmashie family’s claims of land ownership must be removed from the Land’s Commission’s records, according a Supreme Court judgment.
The Numo Nmashie Family cannot be considered the landowners, according to the court presided over by Justice Jones Victor Dotse, which includes the following villages: Peduase, Obuom, Nsakye, Agyemanti, Brotrease, Danfa, Adoteiman, Otinibi, Malidzano, Okyaekomfo Kotei, Taboadidi, Ayim, A
The majority of the various families and stools, who are not all parties to the current lawsuit, were supported by pronouncements and declarations issued by the five-judge panel, which held that they should only be regarded as declaratory.
The judge ruled. We conclude that the Trial Court correctly assessed the evidence that clearly demonstrated the Numo Nmashie Family’s erroneous claim to the seventy (70) villages and the property adjacent to them.
The Numo Nmashie family and two other people were sued in court by The Boi Stool and approximately twelve other people, who claimed possession of the villages and land inside about 72,000 acres.
The judgment stated that the Family began claiming ownership of seventy (70) villages, believing themselves to be their owners, and that on Tuesday, April 30, 2002, the Executive Secretary of the Lands Commission published these villages as belonging to the Third Defendant Family in the Daily Graphic.
The publication made clear, in the court’s opinion, that the High Court had asked the Lands Commission to map out the Numo Nmashie Family’s judgment plan with regard to these seventy (70) villages.
But the plaintiffs returned to court to defend what they regarded as their right, so this was not to be.
The plaintiffs sought to overturn the Court of Appeal decision that had been rendered in the defendants’ favor.
They added that the Learned Justices of the Court of Appeal erred in holding that the Numo Nmashie Family) did not win the decision in Civil Appeal No. 49/80 through fraud, arguing that the verdict is against the weight of the evidence.
The plaintiffs had asked the count to issue an order declaring void on account of fraud any judgment based on the determination that the Numo Nmashie Family is the owner of the lands and towns nearly adjacent to the stated acquired area.
A declaration that the Co-Defendant (Numo Nmashie Family) is not the owner of the communities and their lands specified in their reliefs was also requested, along with general damages for trespass.
The plaintiffs’ attorneys also argued that any decision or order based on the aforementioned ruling is also fraudulent, highlighting how the Numo Nmashie Family misled the court in the Civil Appeal by claiming ownership of the lands and communities that are nearly next to the acquisition area.
“Plaintiffs argued that Surveyor Lassey’s report, which served as the basis for the ensuing ruling in Suit No. 49/80, was false because some of the villages that the Defendant Family claimed belonged to them in his report were false. The ruling stated in part, “The Plaintiffs argued that the Defendant Family engaged in fraud by deceiving the surveyor in order to produce that report.